Visit us at www.LovettsvilleHistoricalSociety.org and in-person at our Museum. We are committed to preserving and promoting the history and heritage of the Town of Lovettsville and the surrounding area known as "The German Settlement." Displayed are various artifacts, photographs, documentation, household articles, tools, genealogy and other historical information pertaining to the local history within the Lovettsville Museum. Plan your next outing to visit the Museum, attend our monthly events and lectures or arrange a group tour. The Lovettsville Historical Society offers research resources and assistance. Contact us at [email protected].
Operating as usual
Our October 2020 Newsletter is now available and is ready for your reading enjoyment. This issue features an article on the World War II Gold Star Service Flag at New Jerusalem Lutheran Church; a new feature on "Hidden History: the Mount Sinai church and cemetery at "Little Britain;" and a follow-up to the "Right to Vote" feature on the 1890s voter register, that was in our last issue. https://mailchi.mp/88e99ff60408/news-from-the-lovettsville-historical-society
Our September 2020 Newsletter is ready, just in time for Labor Day Weekend. This issue features the 120-year-old register of Black voters in Lovettsville found in the Lovettsville Museum, and stories about those listed in the register from a descendant. https://mailchi.mp/fec6e49c70be/news-from-the-lovettsville-historical-society
Lovettsville Museum is open, by appointment The Lovettsville Museum is now open to those making an advance appointment. After reviewing the Governor’s “Safer at Home: Phase Three” requirements and guidelines, we do not believe that we have adequate staffing or facilities to be able to ...
Our August 2020 Newsletter has launched! This issue features an introduction to the Loudoun Farm Heritage Museum, highlighting the part that Lovettsville farming has played in the story the Farm Museum tells. http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/?p=3924&preview=true
Our August 2020 Newsletter has launched! August 1, 2020 LHS_Admin Uncategorized 0 Our August Newsletter is now available, featuring an introduction to the Loudoun Farm Heritage Museum and the role that Lovettsville-area farming plays in the story it tells. Get the Newsletter here.
Can you identify this Lovettsville-area store, believed to be in the mid-1930s? If you think you know who -- or where -- this is, submit your answer to [email protected], with the caption "History Mystery."
“Voices of Lovettsville” -- Tell us your coronavirus stories!
The Lovettsville Historical Society is sponsoring an exciting new project, called “Voices of Lovettsville,” to collect stories of our local citizens' experiences during these extraordinary times of the coronavirus. Sheryl Frye has volunteered to lead this project over the next few months. She will be conducting interviews with citizens of all ages and backgrounds.
First-hand accounts of people’s personal experiences can convey so much more historically than just facts and figures. Through these interviews, Sheryl is hoping to capture -- for future generations -- how this pandemic, and our responses to it, are affecting people in the Lovettsville area.
Interviews (at a social distance) will be done with those that are interested in participating. These will be non-political and experience-based interviews, with no more than 12 questions. Basic demographic data will also be collected to help the Historical Society organize these interviews.
Once the interviews are completed, the recordings and transcriptions will be held by the Historical Society & Museum for preservation and possible publishing. If you are interested in being interviewed for this project, please contact Sheryl at the [email protected] address, and she will set up a time to meet with you.
If you would prefer, you may just write down your stories yourself, and submit them to Sheryl at the above email address, or snail-mail them to the Lovettsville Historical Society, P.O. Box 5, Lovettsville VA 20180.
If you’d like to help out with transcribing interviews and writing, let us know at the email address above.
Please join us in this effort, ask your friends and neighbors to participate as well, and help us promote this project!
Our July 2020 Newsletter is ready! Read it now. https://mailchi.mp/9499bc3a9a2b/news-from-the-lovettsville-historical-society
Our June 2020 Newsletter is out! http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/our-june-2020-newsletter-is-now-available/
In Fond Memory: Elaine Walker
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/in-fond-memory-elaine-walker/
Here's Lovettsville's virtual Memorial Day ceremony, in which the Lovettsville Historical Society participated.
We host lots of events in Lovettsville, but Memorial Day is one that speaks to the heart of who we are as a community. Thank you to everyone that attended our Virtual Memorial Day Ceremony, earlier today. If you were not able to join us live, we have posted the full ceremony below.
Even during a global pandemic and Stay-At-Home order, we will NEVER FORGET to honor our military personnel who we have lost in the service of our country.
Thank you to the following organizations and individuals who made our remembrance ceremony possible.
-- Lovettsville Historical Society and Museum --
Edward Spannaus
-- Boy Scouts of America, Troop 962 --
Eagle Scout Jake Ridderhoff and Life Scout Sam Ridderhoff
-- Boy Scouts of America, Troop 969 --
Second Class Cooper Barton
-- Cub Scouts, Pack 704 --
Webelo Corbin Barton and Lion Logan Barton
-- Girl Scouts, Troop 70078 --
Brownie Hailey Barton
-- Lovettsville Elementary School --
Mrs. Sarah Stillman
-- Chaplain --
Major Yul Song, U.S. Army Reserve
-- Lovettsville American Legion Post 1836 --
Lizzy Fontaine, David Steadman, Donald Zajic, and Thomas Mawson
-- Lovettsville American Legion Auxiliary Unit 1836 --
Erin York
-- Elected Officials --
Senator Mark Warner, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton, Senator
John Bell, Delegate Dave LaRock, Loudoun County Board of
Supervisors Chair Phyllis J. Randall, and Supervisor Caleb Kershner
-- Bagpipes, Amazing Grace --
Don Vermillion
-- LOVE America Committee, Town of Lovettsville --
Chair Melissa Barton, Councilman Mike Dunlap, Lovettsville Town Council
Planning Commissioner Adam Baumgardner, Tiffany Dunlap
It is amazing that such a moving and touching ceremony can be created during a global pandemic, under a Stay-At-Home order, filmed purely with the use of cell phone cameras, compiled with free software, and a whole LOT of LOVE. As we look forward to the days when we can all be together again, we hope that this virtual ceremony continues to honor the sacrifice of our fallen heroes.
From all of us in The Town of Lovettsville, we will NEVER FORGET.
~ Nate Fontaine, Mayor of Lovettsville,
Our May newsletter has just been published.
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/our-may-2020-newsletter-is-now-available/
Our May 2020 Newsletter is now available! May 1, 2020 LHS_Admin Uncategorized 0 We have just published our monthly newsletter for May 2020. Even though we are forced to close the Museum, and postpone all lectures until it is safe to meet again, there is still lots to do. This issue continues our sur...
Stop demolition of Community Center, LHS asks Supervisors
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/stop-demolition-of-community-center-lhs-asks-supervisors/
The Lovettsville Museum and our lecture series is shut down, but history is not shut down! It is open. We continue to bring you our newsletter, in which we will point you to some useful on-line resources which you can use to enrich your knowledge of history and genealogy, during these stay-at-home days. The April issue also contains an update on the fight to save the Lovettsville Community Center from demolition, and we feature a pioneering article on the Hessian soldiers who stayed in America — and in the Lovettsville area — to build a better life after the American Revolution.
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/our-april-2020-newsletter-is-now-available/
Our April 2020 Newsletter is now available! April 4, 2020 LHS_Admin Uncategorized 0 The Lovettsville Museum and our lecture series is shut down, but history is not shut down! It is open. We continue to bring you our newsletter, in which we will point you to some useful on-line resources which you ca...
Closure and Cancellation Notice:
Under the terms of the Governor's March 23 Executive Order, the Lovettsville Museum must be closed through April 23, and our lecture scheduled for April 19 must also be postponed. We will keep you advised as soon as we are able to resume normal activities. Meanwhile, stay safe and stay well!
Our February 2020 Newsletter is now available. Get it here: https://mailchi.mp/8b28bece4cfa/news-from-the-lovettsville-historical-society
Our January 2020 Newsletter is now here! https://mailchi.mp/8789d0e25a62/news-from-the-lovettsville-historical-society
Or go to our website: http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/
Rob Jones honored at LHS Annual Meeting
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/rob-jones-welcomed-at-lhs-annual-meeting/
Our December 2019 newsletter is now available. https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=505152bd0e6e82e1cbc019d3c&id=036ee8a2da
Our November 2019 newsletter is now available, and includes:
Nov. 10 Lecture: “The Lost History of Potomac Marble”
Dec. 15: LHS Annual Meeting at Lovettsville Museum
The German-American Zweitürhaus in Lovettsville
Nearby events of interest
See it here:
https://mailchi.mp/f196e1a2b45c/news-from-the-lovettsville-historical-society-november-2019
When the Capitol of the United States was rebuilt after the British burned Washington in 1814, the famed columns in the old House and Senate chambers were built with what is called “Potomac Marble,” found on both sides of the Potomac River, in Loudoun County in Virginia, and in Montgomery and Fr...
Nov. 10 Lecture -- “The Lost History of Potomac Marble”
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/november-10-the-lost-history-of-potomac-marble/
Next lecture, Sunday, Oct. 13: “Germanna 101:
Virginia’s First German Settlement”
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/october-13-germanna-101-virginias-first-german-settlement/
Second Annual Tasting, Tales, and Tunes: Hiddencroft Vineyards, Thursday Evening, Oct. 17, 2019—7:00-9:30 p.m.
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/tastings-tales-tunes-at-hiddencroft-vineyards-october-17/
What we are losing, by demolishing the Community Center building
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/what-we-are-losing-by-demolishing-the-community-center-building/
Annual Lovettsville Historical Society Fundraiser & Membership Appreciation Event,
Sunday, Sept. 22, at 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/sept-22-lhs-fundraiser-and-membership-appreciation-event/
Sept. 8 Lecture -- "The Shenandoah Valley's German Heritage"
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/sept-8-the-shenandoah-valleys-german-heritage/
Next Lecture: August 11 — Daniel Morgan: American Rifleman
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/august-11-daniel-morgan-american-rifleman/
The full video of our June 9 presentation "Growing Up Lovettsville," featuring the life and times of Walter Fleming, is now posted on our YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpuzEFQCew
Our July 2019 Newsletter is now available.
https://mailchi.mp/8e6637299dcf/news-from-the-lovettsville-historical-society
Ethan Smith wins LHS History Award at Lovettsville Elementary
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/ethan-smith-wins-lhs-history-award-at-lovettsville-elementary-school/
Our June newsletter is now available.
http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/our-june-2019-newsletter-is-now-available/
Our June 2019 newsletter is now available! June 1, 2019 LHS_Admin Uncategorized 0 For our latest issue, read it here. In this issue: Lecture June 9: “A conversation with Walter Fleming” Upcoming LHS lectures and events Heritage Commission proposal presented to Supervisors 1938 WPA Historical Inv...
Next Lecture -- June 9: "Growing Up Lovettsville:
When A Farm Boy Drove the School Bus."
An Illustrated Reminiscence
with Walter M. Fleming
Sunday, June 9, 2:00 p.m.
Slideshow by Becky H. Fleming
Rich Gillespie, Moderator
When Dr. A. B. Householder brought Walter M. Fleming into the world on September 26, 1929 near Elvan, west of Lovettsville, there was a farm depression going on in rural Virginia. There had been for most of the decade. In four weeks, the rest of the nation would join them. The son of Alvin and Leona Fleming, Walter was born to a hard-working couple who were farming Millbrook, the farm of Dr. and Mrs. William J. Mallory of Washington, D.C.
Growing up on a Lovettsville area farm, Walter was a part of an intensive rural life known to generations who worked the land by hand and horse, a multi-skilled culture now largely lost. American culture today and particularly western Loudoun society assumes we know the basics of this life—it regularly enters our turn of phrase—and yet the vast majority of us no longer do. Walter Fleming absorbed every bit of it into his very pores.
With the help of his son, Loudoun History Award winter Ken, and his able writer and daughter-in-law Becky, Walter has sought to record that hardscrabble satisfying life in word and image with his new book, Growing Up Lovettsville: The Life & Times of Walter M. Fleming. It is a memoir of rural Loudoun life, but a memorial to small-town life in Lovettsville and nearby Brunswick, Maryland as well.
Fleming will speak at the Lovettsville Historical Society’s monthly second-Sunday history lecture series at 2:00 p.m. June 9th at the customary venue, the inviting sanctuary at St. James United Church of Christ at 10 East Broadway (the main street), in Lovettsville, with renowned historian Rich Gillespie acting as interviewer and moderator while Becky Fleming illustrates her father-in-law’s reminiscences with projected photos from the family album. The program will particularly focus on farm life in a time of intensive change, something Mr. Fleming became very familiar with in his subsequent career with Whitmore & Arnold (later Browning Equipment) dealing with agricultural implements. Additionally, as a high school student school bus driver, Fleming will share his memories of school life at Woodland and Lovettsville Elementary Schools as well as Lovettsville High School (now the Lovettsville Community Center).
Those with long memories of Northern Loudoun are especially invited to attend and follow in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s long tradition, in which the audience becomes involved with questions and their own memories at the end of the formal presentation. Whether its adventures across the wood-bottomed Brunswick Bridge or memories of the August 31, 1940 airliner crash (Walter Fleming heard it crash and saw the results shortly after), presentations like this one refresh old memories and bring a younger generation and newer residents “into the fold” of the region’s communal experience.
Walter Fleming will have copies of his memoir available and will autograph the well-illustrated volume. Admission is free, but donations and memberships are welcomed to defray expenses of the program and to support the ongoing activities of the Lovettsville Historical Society.
For more information, visit www.LovettsvilleHistoricalSociety.org or email [email protected].
May 19: Eugene Scheel presents his new “American Indian Map of Loudoun County” May 5, 2019 LHS_Admin Uncategorized 0 “American Indian Map of Loudoun County” to be presented by Eugene Scheel Sunday, May 19, at 2:00 p.m. Eugene Scheel has taught American Indian History to Loudoun County teache...
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The Lovettsville Museum is open every Saturday from 1:00 to 4:00. FREE admission! Come see our aerial photos of town, our hands-on exhibits for kids, Selfie Station with vintage hats, or do some local history research in our Archive Room. We also have a little gift shop and sell books, Museum t-shirts and unique Lovettsville postcards. Located at 4 East Pennsylvania Avenue next to Lovettsville Town Hall, Housepaws Veterinary, and Andy's Restaurant, and just a few doors west of Back Street Brews Coffee & Tea House, The Painted Pig, and White House Ceramic Studio. Air conditioned. Come hang out a spell! Directions to our museum: https://goo.gl/maps/uGKG9Yqf1672 Located at 4 East Pennsylvania Avenue next to Lovettsville Town Hall, Housepaws Veterinary, and Andy's Restaurant, and just a few doors west of Back Street Brews Coffee & Tea House, The Painted Pig, and White House Ceramic Studio. Air conditioned. Come hang out a spell! While you are at it, sign up for our FREE newsletter/magazine at http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/newsletter/ www.LovettsvilleHIstoricalSociety.org
Lovettsville is the only town or village in Loudoun County, Virginia with a museum dedicated to preserving its own civic history. We are committed to preserving and promoting the history and heritage of the Town of Lovettsville and the surrounding area known as "The German Settlement." Displayed are various artifacts, photographs, documentation, household articles, tools, genealogy and other historical information pertaining to the local history within the Lovettsville Museum. The Lovettsville Historical Society offers research resources and assistance. We are located at 4 East Pennsylvania Avenue, next to Town Hall, open Saturdays 1:00-4:00 or by appointment.
Attend our popular monthly history lectures at St. James UCC in Lovettsville. Visit us online to see the upcoming schedule of lectures at www.LovettsvilleHistoricalSociety.org.
The Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum also publishes a free monthly email newsletter with feature articles pulled from the scrapbooks in our museum's archives, plus announcements of upcoming local history lectures, and events of local interest. Don't miss out on the fun! Email [email protected] and ask to be added to our e-Mailing List.
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The Lovettsville Historical Society, Inc. is an all-volunteer, tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the Society, and membership dues, are tax-deductible under the Internal Revenue Code.
Contact us at [email protected].
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